This film was produced in 1983/84  by Tajik Film for Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It features clips of the Lyaur Testing Range, in Tajikistan, and of two explosion tests (~20 tones of explosive each) conducted to test structures and equipment for a chemical plant. To learn more about these experiments, view the paper by Negmatulaev et al. (1998). (This document can be accessed via the Research page.

To  view this clip, RealPlayer G2 software is required, installed on the visitors PC (a free version can be downloaded from http://www.real.com/.  The duration of the film is ~2 min, and the quality depends on the hardware capabilities of the viewer's PC.

A VHS tape of this film was made available by Dr. S.H. Negmatulaev, the director of this institute.  The USGS-Strong Motion Team and the USC-Information Services Division provided assistance in the analogue-to-digital conversion.


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